On Fri, 8 May 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
> > Somebody was describing this same calculator to me yesterday. It was the
> > Sharp EL-8 and had a 9-segment display.
>
> I still have mine, though regrettably it does not respond to power now.
> The display tubes are 9 elements, but only 8 segments. The ninth being a
> decimal point. My recollection is that the numerals looked blue, but the
> plastic window over the tubes is about Kelly green. Does orange filtered
> through green look blue?
I've never seen one, but now I'm intrigued. I checked the web for a pic,
and the closest I could find is a soviet calc belonging to our own Andrew
Davie (where is that guy?) that is said to have a display similar to the
EL-8 (and it is very cool looking):
http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/slide/calculator/c3-07.html
-- doug
Received on Sat May 09 1998 - 00:26:48 BST